• Adobe Premiere Pro

  High res photos look poor in Premiere CS3

  Posted by Christian Beyeler on November 29, 2009 at 10:24 am

  Hi

  I’ve vacation photos (3888 x 2592 10MP, jpeg format, 72dpi, bit depth 24). Combined with some video clips, I would like to render a HDV video (720p).
  My problem: when rendering the photos the image quality looks very poor. I have tried to resize the photos to 720×480 in an external program. Rendering the photos again, the image quality still looks poor.

  Could some one tell me how to render such high res photos (Best Practice)?

  Thanks
  Christian

  Christian Beyeler replied 16 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
• 7 Replies

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  Vince Becquiot

  November 29, 2009 at 5:47 pm

  Is it poor in the preview window or poor in your export?

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Christian Beyeler

  November 29, 2009 at 6:21 pm

  in the export
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  Vince Becquiot

  November 29, 2009 at 10:30 pm

  Any way that you could post a screenshot or a short sequence?

  What are the export settings?

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Christian Beyeler

  November 30, 2009 at 5:39 am

  Here is a screenshot of the rendered photo sequence
  

  export settings are:
  File Type: Microsoft DV AVI
  Embedding Options: None
  Video:
  Compressor: DV PAL
  Color Depth: Millions of colors
  Framesize: 720 h 576 v 4:3 => this I cannot change (disabled input fields)
  Frame Rate: 25.00 fps
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV Pal (1.067)
  Quality: High
  Data Rate: Recompress: Maintain Data Rate

  If you need any additional information, please let me know.

  Thank you very much for your help so far
  Christian
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  Brian Louis

  November 30, 2009 at 8:28 am

  [Christian Beyeler] “I would like to render a HDV video (720p).
  My problem: when rendering the photos the image quality looks very poor. I have tried to resize the photos to 720×480 in an external program”

  If you are trying to make a 720p HD video you should be resizing the pictures to 1280×720 not 720×480 which is DV not HD, to check your product you should view on a external video monitor at the proper viewing distance for the TV or video monitor’s size.
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  Vince Becquiot

  November 30, 2009 at 4:28 pm

  Christian,

  DV just isn’t kind to anything, especially if you compare that any HD footage you’ve seen previously.

  Are you going to tape? If not I would forget about DV.

  Try exporting a quick sample to uncompressed progressive to see if the problem goes away. If not we can look further

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Christian Beyeler

  December 1, 2009 at 5:44 am

  Hi Vince & Brian

  I’m not going to tape. I’m going to DVD respectively Laptop. Laptop is connected via HDMI to full HD TV.

  What export settings would you recommend?
  File Type: QuickTime?
  Video Compressor: ?
  Pixel Aspect Ratio:?

  I’ve considered Brian’s advice (to resize the photos) and your recommendation not to use DV. Now the image quality looks way better.

  Thank you
  Christian

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